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# The Library
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-library/
- Published: 2022-01-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: you touch it gently, like a lover what does it hide beneath that cover a guilty pleasure, a romance a journalist that takes a stance you've read your fill of similar tomes there's a surprise! a book of poems
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

you touch it gently, like a lover  
what does it hide beneath that cover  
a guilty pleasure, a romance  
a journalist that takes a stance  
you've read your fill of similar tomes  
there's a surprise! a book of poems

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